ICSE 2026
Sun 12 - Sat 18 April 2026 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

With the advent of agentic AI, Software Engineering is transforming to a new era dubbed Software Engineering 3.0. Software project management (SPM) must also evolve with such transformations to boost successful project completion, while keeping humans at the heart of it. Building on our preliminary ideas of “agentic SPM”, and supporting literature, we present our vision of an “Agentic Project Manager (PM)” as a multi-agent system for SPM 3.0. They will work like a “junior project manager”, or an “intern project manager” collaboratively with software teams. We introduce four working modes, with varying autonomy levels to choose from, based on task complexity and risk levels. This addresses concerns with ethics, accountability, and trust related to agentic PMs. We also share insights on human PM role evolution and new skill requirements as a “strategic leader” and a “coach” for humans and agents. While creating the foundation for agentic SPM research, we present a research agenda for the wider research community.

Tue 14 Apr

Displayed time zone: Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil change

14:00 - 15:30
Evaluation, Reliability, and Engineering PracticeAGENT at Oceania VIII
Chair(s): Oshani Weerakoon Department of Computing, University of Turku
14:00
30m
Keynote
Keynote: On the Evaluation of AI Coding Agents
AGENT
K: Chao Peng ByteDance
14:30
6m
Talk
Beyond Task Completion: An Assessment Framework for Evaluating Agentic AI Systems
AGENT
Sreemaee Akshathala IIIT Hyderabad, Bassam Adnan IIIT Hyderabad, Mahisha Ramesh IIIT Hyderabad, Karthik Vaidhyanathan IIIT Hyderabad, Basil Muhammed MontyCloud, Kannan Parthasarathy MontyCloud
14:36
6m
Talk
PerfBench: Can Agents Resolve Real-World Performance Bugs?Virtual Attendance
AGENT
Spandan Garg Microsoft Corporation, Roshanak Zilouchian Moghaddam Microsoft, Neel Sundaresan Microsoft
Pre-print Media Attached
14:42
6m
Talk
SWEnergy: An Empirical Study on Energy Efficiency in Agentic Issue Resolution Frameworks with SLMs
AGENT
Arihant Tripathy IIIT Hyderabad, India, Ch Pavan Harshit IIIT Hyderabad, India, Karthik Vaidhyanathan IIIT Hyderabad
14:48
6m
Talk
Context Matters: Evaluating MCP-Based Context-Aware AI — A Case Study of Email Communications in Nonprofit Organizations
AGENT
Nitin Gupta University of Victoria, Jayani Samaraweera University of Victoria, Raaj Chatterjee Meaningful Technology Inc., Riya Shrestha University of Victoria, Trinity West University of Victoria, Dana Damian University of Victoria
14:54
6m
Talk
Toward Agentic Software Project Management: A Vision and Roadmap
AGENT
Lakshana Assalaarachchi Monash University, Australia, Zainab Masood Prince Sultan University, Rashina Hoda Monash University, John Grundy Monash University
15:00
6m
Talk
Not All Problems Are Nails, Not All Tools Should Be Hammers: A Position Paper on Agent Usage in Software Engineering Tasks
AGENT
Juuso Rytilahti Department of Computing, University of Turku, Panu Puhtila University of Turku, Oshani Weerakoon Department of Computing, University of Turku, Erkki Kaila Department of Computing, University of Turku, Tuomas Mäkilä University of Turku
15:06
24m
Live Q&A
Session 3 Joint Q&A
AGENT